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1916

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Presented as published in 1916. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Take a pint of milk, a pinch of salt, and a half cup of butter; put on to boil. Add a half cup of grated chocolate, a half cup of sugar, well mixed with a quarter of a cup of flour; cook until smooth. Flavor with vanillaChocolate Pie and bake in a bot- tom crust. Cover with whipped cream. This makes a good-sized pie. Chocolate sauce, to serve with ice cream or as a I70 TRUE FOOD VALUES pudding sauce, is delicious. Mix well a half cup each of grated chocolate and sugar, add a half cup of cream, and heat slowly until well blended. Chocolate | Put one square of Baker's chocolate, two table- spoons of hot water, and a pinch of salt in a small saucepan, and boil until it is smooth, stirring con- stantly. Add gradually one pint of boiling water, and when ready to serve add one pint of hot milk. Use all milk and two squares of chocolate, if liked richer; or thicken with one teaspoon of corn- starch wet in a little cold waterChocolate, and boil five | minutes before adding the milk. Chocolate Gelatin 1 pint milk A half 'OX gf latin 1 pint cream Two ou trei chocolate A half cup sugar I leaspo an vanilla Cover the gelatin with a half cup of cold waterChocolate Gelatin I and let soak for half an hour. Put the milk over | the fire, adding sugar and chocolate, then the I gelatin. Take from the fire, add the vanilla, and I fold in the whipped cream when it is cool. Set I away to chill in a mold. Chocolate Filling This is a most delicious filling or frosting for a i plain chocolate cake. Take a cup of sugar, five j AND THEIR LOW COSTS 171 tablespoons of cream, one egg beaten, and two squares of chocolateChocolate Filling. Cook in a double boiler for an hour. Then beat and when thick enough put on the cake. Chocolate Roll 1 cup sugar 4 eggs I cup 1 teaspoon cream tartar Yi teaspoon soda sifted flour For Filhng: 1 square Baker's chocolate V^ cup milkChocolate Roll Boil until right consistency; add one teaspoon vanilla; spread and roll. Chocolate Sandwiches Slightly butter thin slices of white bread ; trim off the crusts. Melt a small piece of butter and grate into it the bitter chocolate, sweetened to taste with granulated sugar. Take from the fire and cool. Moisten with a little creamChocolate Sandwiches, if the filling is too thick to spread between the slices of bread. Chocolate Crullers Cream two tablespoons butter and a half cup of sugar. Gradually add the beaten yolks of three eggs and one and a half cups more of sugar, a cup of sour milk, one teaspoon vanilla, two ounces of chocolate grated and melted over hot 172 TRUE FOOD VALUES water, one-third of a teaspoon of soda dissolvi in a half teaspoon of boiling water, the whites o the eggs whipped to a stiff froth, and sufficienCil sifted floChocolate Crullersur to make a soft dough. Roll out, cutfl into oblongs and divide each into three strips,' leaving the dough united at one end. Braid loosely, pinch the ends together, and cook until brown in smoking-hot fat. Cocoa Sponge Cake 3 eggs \'/i cups sugar 'A cup cold water 1 teaspoon vanilla lii cups flour Beat yolks of eggs light, add water, vanilla, and sugar. Beat again thoroughly, then add the flour with which the baking-powder, cocoa, and cinna- mon have been sifted. Fold in the stiffly whites of eggs. Bake in rather a quick oven: twenty-five or thirty minutes. Chocolate Tarts Grate two ounces of the best French chocolate, and mix with it a pinch of powdered cinnamon, a pinch of salt, a teaspoon of finely chopped lemon rind, a dessertspoon of sifted sugar, and a heap- ing teaspoon of ground rice. Mix a pint of cream or new milk with four well-beaten eggsChocolate Tarts, and add I id ir 1- beatea^l oven^l :olate^^H J AND THEIR LOW COSTS 173